cruel youth

Norberto 2022-04-21 09:01:11

It seems that this is a very famous movie. There are always some people who like to discuss it, because it has something to do with youth, which everyone has had but in a different form.

In faraway Scotland, 1996, half-teenaged teenagers who were addicted to drugs and idle, promiscuous, and didn't know the meaning of life. Taking drugs, quitting drugs, failing, continuing to take drugs, committing crimes, taking risks, betrayal, buddies breaking up, someone dying in the middle, the hero's monologue runs through the whole movie, it's that kind of monologue that makes me think this kid is still a saved kid. Analyzing one's own children so clearly will not sink to death like this, right?

In the end, he took the right path, although he also betrayed his buddies. But I don't think he's wrong, maybe I'm selfish too?

This movie, however, reminds me of waiting for Godot. There are so many annoying repetitions, such as taking drugs with a needle, and the hero's incessant monologue, which is also very annoying. Sadly, this double upset made me finish watching this youth-related movie very seriously.

Suddenly a little doubtful, is youth without rebellion considered youth? Wouldn't it make people feel a little regretful to follow the rules and regulations of youth?

Although I can't do some rebellious things at the end of my youth to make up for my so many regrets, it's just that I often feel gorgeous and sentimental when watching such movies.

In the days when youth is about to end, I like these images related to youth more than before. Life is a gorgeous irony.

The irony will only stop when the soul also rests.

Maybe such a tangled life is life, right?

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Extended Reading
  • Katlyn 2022-03-23 09:01:10

    Scotland 2:1 England, the Scots climax. No one mentions the political irony and outcast feeling of the Scots in this film.

  • Wilfred 2022-03-22 09:01:09

    You take away huge sums of money, but you can't take away your inner worries and perplexities; you fall into the toilet, and from then on you spend your life in the empty ocean. Misunderstanding that drugs are the elixir of salvation, borrowed a needle to rescue the drowning self after the baby died; mistakenly used friendship as a panacea, opened his eyes wide and saw the betrayal but made no sound in his throat. It was a profile of a generation of people doing nothing, struggling on the edge of drugs and sex, letting their desires be afraid of beatings, the times swaying, and throwing them to the invisible tomorrow.

Trainspotting quotes

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way.

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Swanney taught us to adore and respect the national health service. For it was the source of much of our gear. We stole drugs. We stole prescriptions or bought them, sold them, swapped them, forged them, photocopied them. Or traded drugs with cancer victims, alcoholics, old-age pensioners, AIDS patients, epileptics, and bored housewives.